Supreme Court of India
N. E. Horo v. Jahan Ara Jaipal Singh
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What the Court ordered
In the result this appeal fails and it is dismissed but in view of the nature of the points involved we leave the parties to bear their own costs in this Court.
Judgment, page 18
From the headnote
Representation of the People Act (43 of 1951), s. 123(2) and (7) Scope of. Customary Law-Mundas-Marriage between Munda male and a non- Munda-Whether wife becomes a Munda. The respondent, who was a Tamil by birth and Christian by religion, had married a member of the Munda Schedule Tribe in the State of Bihar. On the death of her husbwd, who was 1l member of the Lok Sabha, she stood for election from a Parliamentary (Schedule Tribe) Constituencr in the State. Another candidate filed objections to her nomination that she was not a Munda and her nomination was rejected by the Retumin& Officer,
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